Nope pretty normal actually. Netherlands is famously tall, Germamy and UK are good parallels to the USA in terms of HDI i think. And if you’re already deciding to shos the usa or netherlanda, it makes sense to show their nearest language cousins - the UK and Germany.
India and China are leading economies in their respective continent, and have “developing economy” regions. So this allows us to basically go “North America, Europe, Asia,” and compare and contrast developed against underdeveloped.
Also i’ve seen this selection of countries for a bunch of different stuff too.
likely china and india are chosen as they are in the progress of uplifting poor populations, and the effect can be reflected here (with china already done much more progress).
Not every graph has to compare every country in the world all at once. However if you use the sites provided/named in the graphics, you can whip up your own comparison of any of those countries quite quickly.
Nope pretty normal actually. Netherlands is famously tall, Germamy and UK are good parallels to the USA in terms of HDI i think. And if you’re already deciding to shos the usa or netherlanda, it makes sense to show their nearest language cousins - the UK and Germany.
India and China are leading economies in their respective continent, and have “developing economy” regions. So this allows us to basically go “North America, Europe, Asia,” and compare and contrast developed against underdeveloped.
Also i’ve seen this selection of countries for a bunch of different stuff too.
Where’s the rest of Europe, where’s Africa, and where’s the Middle East ???
likely china and india are chosen as they are in the progress of uplifting poor populations, and the effect can be reflected here (with china already done much more progress).
Not every graph has to compare every country in the world all at once. However if you use the sites provided/named in the graphics, you can whip up your own comparison of any of those countries quite quickly.
The chart would be useless with too many, as you would not be able to identify it even see the lines.